I've written about Brazil pre-Lula and post-Lula and spent the last five years covering all aspects of the country for Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal and Barron's. Meanwhile, for an undetermined amount of time, and with a little help from my friends, I will be parachuting primarily into Brazil, Russia, India and China. But will also be on the look out for interesting business stories and investing ideas throughout the emerging markets.

The couple, Ronald Munk and Priscilla Celeste, were looking for a new beamer when a salesman saw the child wandering around nearby and asked the child to leave. The news sent mild shockwaves in the Brazilian press as the country still struggles with rampaging racial inequality.

The salesman told the couple, according to Priscilla’s account with G1: “You can’t stay in here. This isn’t a place for you. You have to leave.” The salesman then told Priscilla that poor children often come into the car lot asking for money. When they told him that the boy was their son, his “mouth fell open in embarrassment,” the couple said.

Ronald told G1 that nothing like this has happened before with his 7 year old son. The boy asked why he was asked to leave, “when the store has a room with a TV playing cartoons for children,” G1 reported. Priscilla said that she thinks her son understood why he was kicked out of the dealership.

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Clarice, its the same thing in the here in US. Even with a Black president and all. Its the same in every country. Thanks to the colonization, Eurocentrism has become the default preference anywhere in this world. Everyday I read about racism in America. I find myself saying, “its only skin,” but to others who develop hatred its never seen that way. I am glad this is getting attention. Enough is enough. Every racial inequality should be brought to light until its no longer an issue. We all bleed the same blood. And when you’re in need of an organ, the color of the donor wont ever matter.

Los Angeles is the most multi-ethnic city in the US and has been my home for 35 years. What really makes racism fade is just the everyday reality of living with a variety of people – you notice someone’s race in the same way you notice they are tall or are wearing a red shirt.

That is not, unfortunately, as true in ethnic enclaves, where many of the people don’t even speak English (or Spanish). In hardcore minority/poor communities racism runs very strong. Street gangs are an obvious example – they are always a single race and almost always violently, even murderously racist, especially toward other gangs. Ironically, whites are the least involved.

That is where efforts to eradicate racism need to focus, and it will be even more essential in the future.

so true!!!!! God did not create this world for only white people! It’s time for the world to stand and take action for whites are the mninority population in the world while people of color are the majority!